A Columbia County jury deliberating on the guilt or innocence of former Harlem mayor and county Commissioner Scott Dean, who is accused of molesting one of his adopted daughters, has reached a verdict on one count but is still deliberating on the second.

The jury deliberated for an hour after a third day of testimony on Wednesday. They resumed at 9:30 a.m. today and broke for a lunch break just before 1 p.m.

Allen, a 2010 graduate of Harlem High School and student at Georgia Military College, was driving a 2001 Ford F-250 pickup south on Hereford Farm Road when he apparently lost control, possibly by running off the shoulder and over-correcting, Garrison said.

The trial of former Columbia County Commissioner and accused child molester Scott Dean resumed Tuesday morning, with the victim in the case telling jurors Dean molested her.

Dean, 42, is accused of exposing himself to and inappropriately touching his daughter, one of five children he and his wife adopted from Guatemala in 2008.

That daughter, who has been out of the Dean household and living in foster care since January, testified with the help of a translator that Dean came into her room one night, laid in her bed and touched her private areas.

Two Grovetown High School students recently were disciplined for committing sexual offenses.

Following a meeting with the Columbia County school system hearing officer on Nov. 29, a Grovetown High student was suspended and will enter in-school suspension once allowed to return to school, according to discipline reports collected Monday.

The other Grovetown High student was sent to the system’s alternative school in Grovetown for the remainder of the school year following a Dec. 1 hearing.

The Grovetown City Council voted Monday to legalize Sunday packaged alcohol sales.

The city council last month approved an amendment to repeal the city ordinance banning packaged sales on Sundays. The amendment also states that licensed establishments can sell alcohol 12:30-11:30 p.m. Sundays.

Licensed stores can start selling packaged alcohol on Sundays as soon as this Sunday, Dec. 18.